ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,582, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yuki Kumazawa (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device, including: a power semiconductor element having a current output electrode; a wire bonded to the current output electrode; and a degradation detection circuit configured to monitor a temporal change of a voltage value of the wire while a constant current flows through the wire, responsive to satisfaction of a plurality of conditions including that the power semiconductor element is in a turn-off state, and that a temperature of t...